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rattle

1. a series of loosely connected horny segments on the tail of a rattlesnake, vibrated to produce a rattling sound
2. Med another name for rale

rattle

any of various European scrophulariaceous plants having a capsule in which the seeds rattle, such as Pedicularis palustris (red rattle) and Rhinanthus minor (yellow rattle)

Rattle

Sir Simon. born 1955, British conductor. Principal conductor (1980--91) and music director (1991--98) of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 2002
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I was stunned to see iron ore plunge five per cent in a single session and take the Aussie dollar down with it and there are now rumors in Canberra that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, despite his Goldman pedigree, is on his political death rattle while the RBA is on hold.
In the deepest gloom, he recalls the three hours, 27 minutes and 39 seconds he spent by an eager ornithologist, who had introduced himself with a spirited "cock-adoodle-doo", before explaining that he'd mastered every bird song from the swamp warbler's wedding cry to the wrinkly buzzard's death rattle.
But whether all this represents the rebirth of diagnostic possibility or the death rattle of an obsolete device is a subject of spirited discussion in cardiology.
Then there's Pacino's singing voice, a death rattle that makes even Bob Dylan's rasp sound like softly billowing silk.
I do think there will be a death rattle from Hull - either at White Hart Lane, where Spurs seem to have packed up for the summer, or against a Manchester United side that have as good as wrapped up the top four now.
Kent conjures some genuinely unsettling scenes of domestic disturbance but once The Babadook slinks into the light and announces its presence with a death rattle growl, the film loses some of its power.
Turkey, Egypt and the Gulf markets cannot attract global fund managers if an Arab state in the heart of the Middle East begins its geopolitical death rattle. Note that Dubai's DFM index fell 12 per cent in the two sessions after the ISIS militia seized Mosul and Kirkuk, then massacred 1,700 captured soldiers of the Iraqy Army's Fourth Division in Salahudin Province.
"You either snore," insisted my wife, "or you're enduring the longest death rattle in history.
Over the last decade, we began hearing the death rattle of a bygone era.
"He even gives a fantastic, ghastly death rattle after falling and goes completely still for four minutes.
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